GRAFTON — Scott Jewett, who works at Lorain Correctional Institution, was announced as the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s 2014 Correction Officer of the Year.
According to the DRC, Jewett began his career at LCI in 2003. Since then, he has taken the initiative to design safety-based systems. It also said that Jewett is a member of LCI’s tactical response team and serves as an Strategic Response Team Squad leader.
“Officer Jewett displays the traits necessary to represent our agency in such a distinguished capacity,” DRC Director Gary C. Mohr said. “He has consistently shown leadership and innovation in his professional career, and those characteristics are evident in his community involvement as well.”
Jewett lives in Elyria and is a member of First Congregational Church where he has chaperoned Keystone Choir trips to New York City and to Disney World, the DRC stated. He also helped coordinate the Keystone Educational Endowment Program golf outing and Christmas on the Square event.
Mohr was joined May 2 by state Rep. Gary Scherer, R-Circleville, at the Reginald A. Wilkinson Corrections Training Academy for the DRC’s annual Correction Officer of the Year Ronald C. Marshall Award Ceremony.
The Ronald C. Marshall Award is named in honor of former Warden Ron Marshall who began his career as a correction officer and worked his way up to become warden.
A correction officer from each of Ohio’s 27 state-operated prisons, along with their family members, friends and DRC staff, were present for the announcement.

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